VeriWave Offers VoIP Over WLAN Test Solution

VeriWave, a start-up based in Portland, Oregon, introduced a VoIP over WLAN Analysis Test Suite. It analyzes traffic prioritization, evaluates the network behavior in the presence of non-voice traffic, and measures overall call quality when users roam between Wireless LAN Access Points.The test suite utilizes the VeriWave WaveTest Traffic Generator/Performance Analyzer to capture all traffic on the wireless LAN medium. WaveTest automatically calculates a wide variety of performance metrics characterizing the network behavior with the most important...

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Converged Access Develops a Layer 7 CPE Device

Converged Access, which was formed in May 2004 by a management buyout of traffic management expert Sitara Networks, introduced its Layer 7, application-aware CPE access device designed for delivering precise network metrics to each application according to customer-defined policies.The Converged Access Point (CAP) combines traffic management technology with IP routing, Ethernet switching, business-class security, wireless and wired access, and voice interfaces. The company said alternative solutions, such as stand-alone routers, DSL modems and...

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Adelphia Taps Motorola CMTS for Voice Services

Adelphia Communications, the fifth-largest cable television company in the US, the Motorola Broadband Services Router (BSR) family of products for deployment of advanced data services. Specifically, Adelphia selected Motorola BSR 64000 platform because of its Advanced Spectrum Management capabilities, which allow cable operators to monitor and automatically correct for Radio Frequency (RF) impairments on the Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) access network. Advanced Spectrum Management allows operators to improve the performance of legacy modems while...

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Verizon Launches iobi Enterprise

Verizon began offering its "iobi Enterprise" service to large business and government customers. The software tool links Verizon's voice and messaging services, providing a "real-time remote control of phone traffic, messaging alerts and services." With iobi Enterprise, employees who are away from the office can see online who's calling their office phone before the phone rings, and then take the call, by forwarding it from their office phone to their cell phone or another convenient phone, as it rings. Iobi Enterprise can be accessed in three...

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Verizon Signs NBC Universal Cable for FiOS TV

Verizon SIGNED a long-term agreement with NBC Universal Cable for distribution of its cable and broadcast networks on Verizon FiOS TV. Two of the networks, Telemundo and mun2, will be part of the extensive lineup of Spanish- language programming available to FiOS TV subscribers.The agreement includes rights to distribute Bravo, CNBC, CNBC World, MSNBC, SCI FI Channel, Trio, USA, ShopNBC, Telemundo, including Telemundo's locally owned broadcast stations, and mun2, a channel aimed at young U.S. Latinos. Also included are retransmission consent rights...

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UTStarcom Announces $20M PAS Contracts with China Netcom

UTStarcom announced that it has signed infrastructure contracts valued at approximately $20 million with China Netcom Group (CNC) to expand the operator's existing IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) (iPAS) networks in the Henan and Liaoning provinces, as well as in metropolitan Beijing and Tianjin. http://www.utstar.c...

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UTStarcom Announces $50 Million In Contracts with China Telecom

UTStarcom announced that it has signed infrastructure contracts valued at approximately $50 million with China Telecom Corporation (CTC). These contracts will expand the operator's existing IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) (iPAS) networks in the Shanxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces in eastern China, as well as in metropolitan Shanghai. According to statistics from China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), approximately two million people have subscribed for PAS service each month in the first quarter of 2005. Total...

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XO Announces Nationwide VoIP

XO announced the nationwide rollout of XOptions Flex VoIP bundle for businesses. XOptions Flex is now available in 45 major metropolitan markets, which includes more than 1,000 cities nationwide. XOptions Flex is an integrated VoIP services that combines unlimited local and long distance calling, dedicated Internet access and web hosting services for a flat monthly price. XOptions Flex includes more than twenty standard voice features for each phone line including call forward, three-way calling, and voice mail. http://www.xo.com/f...

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Sun Launches Blueprint for Broadcasting Digital Television

Sun Microsystems launched a complete update of its Digital Asset Management Reference Architecture for delivering digital television content. The new Digital Asset Management Reference Architecture Version 2.0 introduced by Sun is designed for managing video and rich media content, including HD and SD video, photos, audio, and Flash animation.Sun's new enhancements include VITA, an open Java technology application that accommodates a large number of standards-based ingest (digital conversion) tools. Other enhancements include more media file type...

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NAB Keynote: Verizon's Seidenberg Promotes IPTV

"FiOS will change the competitive landscape in the video marketplace, both now and in the future. From Day One, we'll offer a new technology, a new business model and a new customer experience," said Ivan Seidenberg, the chairman and CEO of Verizon, speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas. So far, Verizon has deployed its fiber-to-the-premises network in more than 100 communities across its service territory, and it plans to reach a total of 3 million homes by the end of this year. Seidenberg is convinced...

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BeVocal Raises $10 Million for Hosted Call Automation

BeVocal, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed an oversubscribed $10 million funding round for its hosted call automation solutions for enterprises and service providers. BeVocal provides hosted self-service voice application solutions than answer, automate and route customer care calls. BeVocal also provides a carrier grade application hosting environment, and tools for clients and partners to build their own voice applications using BeVocal Cafe, the industry's top VoiceXML development environment. The round is being led by ArrowPath...

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Telefonica Brasil Selects Lucent for DSL

Telefonica Brasil awarded a contract valued at R$26 million (approximately US$10 million) to Lucent Technologies to expand its ADSL access network in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lucent Worldwide Services will deploy IP and ATM access to 180,000 lines for Telefonica. With this project Lucent increases its share of broadband access concentrators in the Telefonica network to reach a total of 400,000 ADSL ports. Lucent will also supply a new customized solution to deliver broadband access to remote areas, consisting of rugged outside cabinets and...

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Conexant and TANDBERG Offer MPEG-4 Interoperability

Conexant Systems and TANDBERG Television successfully completed MPEG-4 advanced video coding (AVC)/H.264 interoperability tests. The joint tests verified interoperability between Conexant's CX2418X family of decoder integrated circuits and the TANDBERG EN5990 MPEG-4 AVC high-definition (HD) real-time broadcast encoder."In order to truly deliver on its promises, MPEG-4 AVC needs to go beyond the codec and encoding box and be readily available in end-to-end systems that enable broadcasters and operators to rollout next-generation networks," said...

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Sonus Warns on Preliminary Q1 Results

Sonus Networks expects to report revenue for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005 of between $30 million to $34 million. Based on revenue in this range, the company expects to report a net loss. The company ended the first quarter with approximately $311 million in cash, cash equivalents, long-term investments, and marketable securities. These results are estimates, as the company does not anticipate completing its quarterly review process until early May. "We are disappointed that our revenue is lower than anticipated. The revenue shortfall...

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UNH-IOL Launches VoWLAN Testing

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has opened an industry reference test bed for voice over wireless (VoWLAN) testing. Building upon ongoing Wi-Fi testing and recent work in "triple play" (wireless voice, video and data), the UNH-IOL is combining a newly written VoWLAN test suite with its already extensive wireless test bed. The UNH-IOL test bed, comprising 138 wireless access points (APs) from 35 manufacturers, includes several shielded RF testing environments, open-air testing, Azimuth Systems' W-Series 802.11...

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ADC Increases Financial Guidance, 1-for-7 Reverse Stock Split

ADC said it now expects to have sales from continuing operations of around $292-$297 million and GAAP earnings per share from continuing operations of around $0.03, which includes $2 million of restructuring charges and $3 million of acquired intangibles amortization. This compares to previous guidance on February 28, 2005 for the quarter of sales from continuing operations around $260-$270 million and GAAP earnings per share from continuing operations of around $0.02.ADC also provided guidance for its third fiscal quarter ending July 29, 2005...

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Cisco Debuts XR 12000 Series Routers

Cisco Systems introduced its new Cisco XR 12000 Series router, featuring secure virtualization, continuous system operation, and multiservice scalability. The Cisco XR 12000, which is powered by the same Cisco IOS XR software as the full-size Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, scales from 2.5 Gbps to nX 10 Gbps per slot. The Cisco XR 12000 leverages a Service Separation Architecture (SSA) to isolate public and private services through the secure virtualization of a single router into separate physical and logical routing domains. The Service...

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Cisco 7604 Series Routers Positioned for Smaller POPs

Cisco Systems unveiled a number of enhancements positioning its Cisco 7600 Series routers for deployment in "triple play" networks. The rollout includes a new Cisco 7604 router, available as a 4-slot, 5-rack unit high modular chassis, that enables service providers to deploy L2/L3 VPN and triple play services in small points-of-presence (POPs) and internet gateways, or for enterprises requiring wide area network aggregation at the edge of the network. The small form factor router accommodates line cards from DS0 to OC-48 as well as 10/100/1000...

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Cisco Announces IP NGN Wins with Comcast, Sprint

Sprint selected Cisco Systems as the strategic provider of its converged IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN)IP NGN, which will enable Sprint to sell and support advanced services over an IP/MPLS network. Comcast also recently selected Cisco to help build its IP NGN, designed to support and accelerate the delivery of high-speed Internet, standard and high definition digital broadcast, on-demand video programming and voice services. http://www.cisco....

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Intel Releases Rosedale Chip for WiMax CPE

Intel released its first WiMAX chip. Previously codenamed "Rosedale," the Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface device is based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard and optimized for self-installed WiMAX modems and residential gateways. The chip features a programmable architecture for equipment manufacturers to add their unique applications on top of the standards-based Intel solution. The chip provides a 256 OFDM PHY with support for channel bandwidths up to 10 MHz. It supports adaptive modulation using BPSK, QPSK, QAM16 or QAM64.Key points...

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Crown Castle Names Suppliers for Nationwide DVB Mobile TV Service

Crown Castle, which owns over 10,000 wireless towers and holds a nationwide spectrum license, announced certain key equipment and services suppliers for its forthcoming mobile TV service based on the Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) standard.Thales Broadcast & Multimedia and Axcera are providing terrestrial site transmitter equipment and integration services.Kathrein Inc. is providing site antennas.SES AMERICOM is providing satellite space segment for broadcast distribution. The service will use Microsoft's Windows Media Audio, Windows...

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Colubris Unveils Wireless/Wireline Unified Service Architecture

Colubris unveiled its next-generation Unified Services Network (USN) architecture for bringing together wireless and wired network infrastructures of enterprises and service providers. The goal is to provide centralized management and control of voice, data and video services over a single wireless/wired infrastructure.The first phase of the Colubris USN is the creation of a distributed WLAN/LAN switching architecture with centralized management...

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Microsoft Cites Industry Momentum for Windows Media Video 9

Microsoft cited growing industry support for its Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of VC-1, the proposed SMPTE standard) for the creation, distribution and playback of high-definition (HD) content. VC-1 recently reached the critical step of Final Committee Draft (FCD) status with SMPTE's C24 Technology Committee, in which it is officially referenced as SMPTE standard 421M. In the future, content created in VC-1 will be compatible with the Windows Media Video 9-based PC, consumer electronic device and TV experiences currently available....

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